Tag: Birds
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Year-round gardening: Attracting birds to your Colorado garden
It’s not too late to start waking up to the sound of bird calls in the morning. And it’s not too early to prep your garden to entice birds this coming spring. In Colorado, 519 species of birds have been documented as of September 2022, according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee of Colorado Field…
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‘The poster child for memory’: Mountain chickadees can remember tens of thousands of food caches, new CU study finds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Although their brain is just slightly bigger than a pea, chickadees have quite the memory. A recently released study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Nevada found that this little mountain…
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Southern Colorado raptor center a place for discovery and recovery
PUEBLO • There is a big, black bird that eats the dead, tends to vomit and looks at you with beady eyes from a red face that appears like rotting flesh. Taylor Driver’s heart has been swayed by this bird. “I don’t think I ever thought I would absolutely adore a turkey vulture,” she says.…
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Southern Colorado raptor center a place for discovery and recovery
The Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center’s raptor facility in Pueblo, Colorado works to rehabilitate and releases around 300 birds each year, addressing the challenges faced by raptors in a rapidly changing environment. The center also focuses on educating the public about the species, enlightening visitors about the importance of these creatures in our ecosystem. (Video…
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Parker resident takes exotic approach to mobile pet grooming business
At Dingo’s Natural Pet Foods in Westminster, Parker resident Jennifer Piccin-Shaw set up her tent, laid out all her grooming equipment and stood ready for any birds, guinea pigs, turtles or lizards that came her way Wednesday. Piccin-Shaw harnessed 30 years of zookeeping and veterinary tech work into a traveling exotic pet groomer business. Recently…
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Denver Zoo moves birds indoors to protect them from avian flu
With confirmation of the highly pathogenic avian influence, or HPAI, in Colorado in late March, the Denver Zoo moved all of its birds into safe indoor areas and made programming changes to ensure the animals’ safety. The flu can cause severe illness and death in many bird species and can spread across species as well,…
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Searching for the elusive Pine Warbler
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Chipper Phillips, a bird watcher, said the Pine Warbler, which breeds in the pine forests of eastern North America and rarely ventures in Colorado, has been spotted in South Denver. (Video: Luige Del Puerto/The Gazette)
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Things to do around Colorado this weekend: classic cars, Parade of Homes, hot air balloons, bears, birds
The 45th Snowmass Balloon Festival, Friday through Sunday, has changed for 2020 and can be viewed this year from vehicles in parking lots and hiking and biking trails around Snowmass Village. No crowds. Watch balloons and pilot games from afar and view a night glow Friday. Drive-in registration limited to 250 cars. gosnowmass.com/event/snowmass-balloon-festival SATURDAY Bears…